First Nations Food Companion Cookbook
First Nations Food Companion: How to buy, cook, eat and grow Indigenous Australian ingredients. A groundbreaking celebration of the most accessible and popular Australian native ingredients and their uses in the everyday home kitchen.
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We know more about pine nuts than bunya nuts, kale than warrigal greens, but there's an edible pantry of unique flavours that First Nations people have been making the most of long before anyone came up with the word 'foodie'.
Welcome to a food-lover's guidebook to the First Foods of this continent. Including an informative guide to more than 60 of the most accessible Indigenous ingredients, including their flavour profiles, along with tips for how to buy, grow and store them.
After that, 100 delicious recipes: all featuring native ingredients, and including tips for substituting regular pantry ingredients where needed - including Bush-Tomato Cheese on Toast, Anise Myrtle and Macadamia Poached Chicken, Myrtle Tea Cake, Quandong and Davidson's Plum Iced Vovos and more. Plus features and recipes for an Indigenous medicine garden, as well as how to set up your pantry and freezer, and the best places to find native ingredients in shops and online.
'This book brings ancient foods into the modern kitchen. Every page is full of fascination. A walk in the bush will never be the same.' Bruce Pascoe
Recipes
List of First Nations Food Companion Recipes
Take a sneak peak at some of the recipes here.
- Lilli pilly cordial p. 68
- Pickled quandongs p. 66
- Herby ice pops p. 100
- Wattella p. 106
- Bunya nut risotto with bush green pesto p. 114
- Boonjie tamarind and macadamia noodle salad p. 180
- Kangaroo lasagne p. 220
- Barra burger with bush tartare sauce p. 200
- Myrtle tea cake p. 80
- Strawberry gum, cherry and riberry tapioca trifle p. 132
- Muntrie & quandong jelly slice p. 192
- Beetroot, chocolate & wattleseed cake p. 228
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Ingredients guide
- Stock your pantry
- Flavour wheel
- Spice
- Herbal
- Nutty
- Fruity
- Medicine garden
- Floral
- Citrus
- Marine
- Earthy
- Stockists
- Featured Artists
- Acknowledgments
- Index
About this Book
Written by Damien Coulthard and Rebecca Sullivan.
ISBN: 9781922351883
ISBN-10: 1922351881
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 248
Available: 5th October 2022
Publisher: Murdoch Books
Dimensions (cm): 25.0 x 19.0
Our products are all made in Australia from 100% locally sourced, seasonal and wild harvested produce.
Warndu means good in the Adnyamathanha language.
Our mission is to REGENERATE culture, community, tradition, health and our soils. Every product we make includes one or more Australian Native ingredients.
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